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The Lavender Hill Mob

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The Lavender Hill Mob
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NR,1hr 18min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Release:
1951
Director:
Charles Crichton
Distributor:
Anchor Bay
Starring:
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James  ...more
Synopsis: Charles Crichton directed this Ealing caper comedy, with a witty script by T.E.B. Clarke that won an Academy Award. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his company, decides to reward himself by stealing one million pounds worth of gold. Calling on his old friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a manufacturer of paperweights and an amateur sculptor, and a couple of Cockney ... Full Synopsis
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Bob Mastrangelo, AMG Review
The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers can almost serve as companion pieces to each other. Both are hilarious British caper comedies of the 1950s, but both also feature astonishingly different central performances from Alec Guinness. While in The Ladykillers Guinness is a fiendish crook whose criminality is evident from his first appearance, in The Lavender Hill Mob he is a mousy milquetoast named ... Full Review
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Alec Guinness
Henry Holland
Stanley Holloway
Alfred Pendelbury
Sidney James
Lackery Wood
Alfie Bass
Shorty Fisher
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